Anurag Jain's Blog
Saturday, July 03, 2004

The Black Coffee Festival of Theatre
5 - 10 July 2004. Alliance Francaise de Bangalore. 7.30pm.

The Bodycatcher. 5th & 6th July.

The Bodycatcher is based on an idea by Alistar Boucher and Amy Thornton, two British volunteers who worked with Black Coffee from March to May this year. The play is almost fable like in tone with large colourful characters, music and a story that borders on the melodramatic. The cast includes Raza Hussain, Ajith Hande, Pooja Hegde, Govinda Asrani, Priya Venkataraman, Shilpa Munikempanna

Khel. 7th & 8th July.

Based on a true incident reported in a publication early this year, Khel revolves around a cricket match played between two teams of boys, each from different communities. The play explores the tension that exists between these communities through the interplay of stark realism that shifts from the present to the past. This is Black Coffee’s first play in Hindi. The cast includes Sanjeev Iyer, Raza Hussain, Mahesh Pandey, Sheila Govindaraj and PD Sathish Chandra.

Dancing on Glass. 9th & 10th July.

Scripted by Ram Ganesh Kamatham, with inputs from the cast, Dancing on Glass has a contemporary setting, focusing on two individuals, one a software engineer, the other a call centre employee. The play uncompromisingly strips bare the human psyche against the backdrop of two of the most popular industries of urban India, through a technology driven production. The cast features Malavika Varadan and Kartik Iyer.

All three plays have been directed by Preetam Koilpillai.

Daily Tickets Rs 100. Season tickets Rs 249.
Available at The Supermarket, Brigade Road and Café de Paris, Alliance Francaise.

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